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La vita è bella!
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LA VITA È BELLA! is an exhibit designed to celebrate the details that make even the mundane or quietly personal a realm of fascination and enjoyment. The project aspires to show that boredom is always a myth and that even in difficult circumstances, the human world is resilient, hopeful and optimistic in unsuspected ways...

EXHIBIT PROGRAM
ESTRENO
6 Sep. 2007
ESPERANZAS
13 Sep. 2007
JAZZ RELUMBRE
20 Sep. 2007
DIVERSIDAD
27 Sep. 2007
Inauguración, charla, comida, indicios de que "la vida es bella" Proyectos, logros artísticos, obra literaria, señales de que la esperanza supera la crueldad... El Jazz de los años 20, 30 y 40 luchaba con sitauciones brutales y de alto sufrimiento, y hace sonreír... Un mundo más íntimo, más conectado e integrado, trae color, invención y mayor capacidad de sabor...

LOS FERROCARRILES
ABSTRACTO DE "LOS FERROCARRILES" DEL LIBRO 'CASTILLA'
22 octubre 2006 :: Azorín

Los ferrocarriles significaban para Azorín, y la sociedad del siglo XIX, una aceleración voraz de la vida y un acceso que parecía casi inmediato a otras sociedades que rodeaban al lugar de nacimiento de cualquiera. El mundo se encogió y los ritmos de la vida parecían intensificarse. [Texto completo]

DIARIO DE AMOR
21 octubre 2006 :: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

Narra las vivencias amorosas de la estancia de Avellaneda en España, y una «vida a la manera del romanticismo», en la pasión sentimental, en la emotividad reflejada en una métrica flexible, etc. Es un testimonio del ideario sentimental de su tiempo, autobiografía, una serie de cartas, y una narración amorosa, como un estudio de la seducción... [Siga leyendo]

NOVEDADES INELUDIBLES
LA NOVEDAD, PROCESO DE REDACCIÓN UNIVERSAL, SE COMPLICA PARA DARNOS MUNDO, Y VIBRA EN NUESTRA PERCEPCIÓN
9 agosto 2006

La novedad es raíz y respiro de la dinámica cultural. No es que todo lo que sea de alguna forma novedad tenga ya un valor superior de por sí, por ser nuevo, último, diferente. Es que el arte de imaginar, situar, ver, averiguar y desarrollar la novedad, como fenómeno, lleva a mayor integración de percepciones en un tejido de comprensión y táctica cultural y esencialmente humana. [Texto completo]

BEYOND THE BIG BANG, THE MEMBRANE MULTIVERSE
IS OUR UNIVERSE "ONE BUBBLE FLOATING IN A SEA OF OTHER BUBBLES"?
19 July 2006

The 'universe' we know as all-encompassing may actually be just one of many such distinct self-contained, self-sustaining phenomena, with distinct physical properties and corresponding physical laws and tendencies, unified membrane cosmologies adrift in a 'superfluid' soup, at times colliding with incredible energy diffusion, creating whole new universes. [Full Story]

LUCCA: ELEGANT, DEFIANT, WALLED & ENDURING
THE CITY CENTER IS ENCLOSED WITHIN WALLS OVERGROWN WITH GREEN & SERVING AS PARKLAND
6 June 2006

As you approach the city by train, you find it is nestled in the green Tuscan countryside, but unassuming, unimposing, a humble quiet city that seems expert in giving back more than it asks. The city's medieval walls are still intact, and the top of the walls is parkland comprising a four kilometer hike around the city center. Chartered in 1160 as an independent comune, the city has long had a character of its own. [Full Profile]

NEW RESEARCH SHOWS MEMORY RETURNS BRAIN TO PAST NEUROCHEMCIAL REALITY
23 December 2005

A new study, conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, by Sean Polyn, PhD, and reported today in the journal Science, demonstrates that memory is the brain's effort to return to a past state. It is not simply a recalling of fact or envisioning of the past, but rather a mechanism by which the brain recreates the chemical and neurological state of its organization at a past time. [Full Story]

BARCELONA: "THE GREAT ENCHANTRESS"
Updated 19 December 2005

Blessed with luxuriant geography, Barcelona is situated between two rivers, along the Mediterranean coast, and buttressed by the Collserrola massif. The landscape is naturally verdant and lush, and the present day city includes many barrios which used to be farming villages. Visitors can look out over the entire valley from Mount Tibidabo (a reference to the Biblical temptation of Jesus by the Devil, saying "this I give to you"). [City Page]

ECONOMY OF ERRORS: HOW ABUNDANCE MAY BRING SCARCITY
DISTORTIONS BUILT INTO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY THREATEN LONG-TERM STABILITY
22 November 2005

The global economy in its present form is not only full of and forced to deal with problematic distortions; it has come to depend a great deal on the "bubble" effect of certain miscalculations and manipulations. Assumptions built into weak threads in the economic web mean that markets are not able to set prices or distribute wealth at sustainable levels. [Full Story]

'TREE OF LIFE' MAKES USED WEAPONS INTO SIGN OF HOPE
11 July 2005

In the wake of Mozambique's long civil war, lasting from 1976 to 1992, a group of artists set up the Transforming Arms into Tools project in the nation's capital, Maputo. Sculptors use decomissioned weapons, and parts of weapons to make art, expressing the possibility of finding new ways to secure and advance civil society. [Full Story]